Wasn't me. I've grown up around guns and shot plenty of them though. I'm a liberal that doesn't think that gun control is nearly as important as accessible mental health care and reducing disparity. I do think that having a gun for protection on the street is ridiculous. It's a stupid use of a gun as a tool. Unless you specifically train in these scenarios, chances are you are just going to make a bad situation much worse for yourself (even if you train, you might end up killing someone and regretting it). In almost every robbery, people are after money, not your life. In this day and age, the most valuable thing you'll have is your phone, and that's not worth shooting over. In my city, we have a publication where you can see the crime statistics. There are robberies every month. There hasn't been a homicide in years, and homicides by and large don't occur during robberies.